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Lance Corporal EUGENE WHEELER

Service Number: 5288
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Infantry

5th Regt.

Date of Death

Died 05 May 1916

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VOI CEMETERY

I. A. 6.

Kenya

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  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Eugene and Caroline Wheeler; husband of Elsie Stewart Howie (formerly Wheeler), of 611, Station St., North Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. Born at Aldershot, England.
  • Personal Inscription SOME DAY MY HERO WE WILL UNDERSTAND

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Buried or commemorated at

VOI CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 143
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